Bug#183772: libc6: zoneinfo/zone.tab missing entries without /

[Angus Lees <gus@debian.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.1-11
Severity: minor

/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab seems to only include timezones of the
form "foo/bar", excluding single component names like "NZ", "Japan",
"UTC", etc.


I note the checktab.awk script in the glibc source seems to only
check/cope with such names too:
 if (tz && tz ~ /\//) { ... zoneSeen[tz] = 1 }

perhaps that is why this omission has gone unnoticed. (glibc
build/test doesn't seem to actually run checktab.awk either..)

 - Gus

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux lambast 2.4.19-686 #1 Mon Nov 18 23:59:03 EST 2002 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libdb1-compat  2.1.3-7        The Berkeley database routines [glibc 2.0/2.